“Yes, I have a sugar daddy.”
The Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown, on how IAC chief Barry Diller keeps his pet content producer sweet, The Globe and Mail, 9 April 2010
Author: owenthomas
FLASH IN THE PAN
“I am positive that there are a large number of Apple employees that strongly disagree with this latest move. Any real developer would not in good conscience be able to support this.”
Adobe evangelist and amateur psychic Lee Brimelow, ranting about Apple’s decision not to include Adobe’s cross-platform browser-crash-enabling technology in its mobile devices,
WE KNOW HALF OF THE MONEY SPENT ON ADVERTISING STARTUPS IS WASTED, WE JUST DON’T KNOW WHICH HALF
“If you need to use a task manager, you’re doing it wrong.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who didn’t quite admit that his company failed to buy AdMob, a mobile-advertising startup, because of an inability to multitask, CNET News, 8 April 2010
LIFESPAN OF THE AVERAGE TWITTER DEVELOPER: 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS
“It is clear that you can build large businesses on top of a social platform like Facebook and Twitter.”
Twitter investor Fred Wilson, on why his company is about to stab a bunch of small businesses built on Twitter in the back, A VC, 7 April 2010
DOES REPUTATION COME WITH A “BUY IT NOW” PRICE?
“By the end of this decade, power and influence will shift largely to those people with the best reputations and trust networks, from people with money and nominal power.”
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, on how the millions of dollars he took from eBay, not to mention his efforts to hide that fact, will make him less trustworthy in the future, Cnewmark.com, 6 April 2010
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